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Discovering orphaned vmdk files in vSphere

On occasion we have found abandoned vmdk files in our vSphere infrastructure. I often have thought we needed to take some time to hunt down and exterminate these orphans. As is often the case, someone else already did the initial research required to make automation of this task possible, but I fou nd I needed to do some updating of the source scripts for improved accuracy, improved formatting, and compatibility with vSphere 4.1: